This paper analyzes the labor market participation behavior of the elderly couples when a new option (early retirement …

health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement, the utilization of health care and social care and the dynamics of …

In order to estimate labour supply responses among older people we have employed a very simple model of retirement …-68 in 1996. The empirical model is employed to assess the impact on retirement of moving the Norwegian pension system … towards actuarial fairness. Future annual pension benefits are increased if retirement is postponed say, for one year. In one …

This paper examines the implications of providing care to elderly parents for adult children's retirement plans using … microdata from a Japanese survey. We find no significant effect of caregiving on family caregivers' planned retirement age if we … do not take into account caregiving intensity but find a negative and significant effect on retirement plans for …

A structural model for retirement and employment based on a flexible, parametric utility function is developed. The … retirement has strong similarities. The utility function estimates from a model with no consumption smoothing, seem more …

eligible for early retirement, while the wife is not eligible. Estimates and predictions derived from the different models are …

such changes. Retirement has increasingly become a decision made jointly by a couple rather than individually by one … retirement decision despite age differences between partners. This joint determination of retirement has important implications …

In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of … Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are …-specific early and full statutory retirement ages to instrument the latter. Exploiting the discontinuities in retirement behavior …

In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of … Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are …-specific early and full statutory retirement ages to instrument the latter. Exploiting the discontinuities in retirement behavior …